I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

All children, except one, grow up.

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.